November 4, 2006: Release 1.5.4. This release changes the default
meta-server to www.gotnap.com.
May 6, 2004: Release 1.5.3. This release is in response to the recent
disappearance of the "napigator" meta-servers. The new default
meta-server is http://naplist.com/servers.php. For future reference,
note that the command line option '-ometaserver=URL' can be `used to
specify an alternative meta-server. This will work as long as the
format of the data served by the meta-server does not change. Also see
scripts/get-servers.sh for a sample shell script which generates a
server list.
May 31, 2003: Release 1.5.2. The main purpose of this release is to
make nap compile under gcc 3.3; most users with precompiled versions
probably won't need to update. A few minor bugs have been fixed. The
only new feature added is a user variable "identity" for setting a
fake client id string, for fooling servers which refuse connections
from nap clients into believing that we're a different client. This
release includes contributions by Massimo Dal Zotto and Peter Naulls.
December 9, 2002: This release fixes an incompatibility with Slavanap
2.3.0, which caused nap to always return "0 search results". Also,
some new search options were added: it is now possible to specify
keywords to be excluded from a search, to limit song length, and to
specify file types to search for. The library building code was
changed so that not the entire library has to be rebuilt each time a
new file is added. Also, nap no longer calculates checksums by
default, since most servers ignore them anyway. The list of shared
files is now sent to the server in the background, reducing waiting
times. Filename masquerading was added; nap by default no longer sends
the absolute pathname of your upload directory to the server. This can
prevent your real username from being announced to the world. The old
behavior can be emulated by setting the "nomasq" user variable. The
problem with downloads that are stuck at "100%" was solved. A
--noserver option was added for starting nap without connecting to a
server. A man page was added. A bug was fixed that caused crashes on
the Linux for PowerPC platform. A bug that caused crashes on some .ogg
files was fixed. Auto-configuration was tweaked to compile better on
Solaris. Support for napster-style meta-servers was dropped, since
these no longer seem to exist. This release includes contributions by
Zovier. Massimo Dal Zotto and Michael Pritchard have helped with
debugging.
March 2, 2002: Release 1.5.0. Nap just got a lot easier to use,
thanks to many useful new features added by Suzanne Skinner. The most
important change is the addition of a new download/upload screen,
accessible via the "F3" key. On this screen, one can monitor and
manipulate downloads and uploads with a few convenient key strokes.
Other new features include repeating timer events, shortcut commands
'/' and ' ' for entering commands or searches from the search result
screen or download/upload screen, no more annoying prompts for
password and email (nap will simply guess them), and http proxy
support. A bug was fixed where the "incomplete" suffix was not always
removed from downloaded files, and another where nap sometimes failed
to create the ~/.nap directory. This release includes contributions
by Suzanne Skinner, Steffen Pingel, Robin Blanchard, and Massimo Dal
Zotto.
February 9, 2002: Release 1.4.9. This release fixes an annoying bug.
The bug is actually in WinMX2.6, not in nap. The problem is that
WinMX2.6 always claims that its upload limit is 0, even when in fact
it is not. As a result, nap 1.4.8 decided not to "remotely queue"
anything from a WinMX client. This release fixes the problem, by
simply remotely queueing anything, even when the remote client's
upload limit appears to be 0.
January 28, 2002: Release 1.4.8. The main purpose of this release is
to adapt to the new location and format of Napigator's server list.
The release also contains a number of minor bug fixes and feature
enhancements. "Remote queueing" has been improved. A bug in sharing
ogg files has been fixed. /fup and /fdown commands were added to
finger multiple users from the up- and download lists. Nap can now be
caused to reconnect to a server by sending it a USR1 signal; this is
sometimes useful in daemon mode. This release includes contributions
by Mike Castle and Darren Embry.
November 11, 2001: Release 1.4.7. This release contains some new
features, notably support for sharing Ogg Vorbis files, and for
sharing non-music files, which more and more users were asking for.
Also, some basic networking code has been rewritten to make nap's
network connections more reliable. In particular, there was a problem
with downloads failing with the error message "transport endpoint not
connected", which only seemed to happen on newer kernels and/or faster
machines. This problem has been fixed. Also, many memory leaks have
been fixed, and the main scroll of the main window has been
re-implemented to be more memory efficient. A new user variable
"scrollsize" was added to limit the size of the main scroll; default
is 10000 lines. User variables "autopurgeup" and "autopurgedown" were
added to automatically purge stopped items from the upload and
download lists. A FreeBSD distribution was added, thanks to Robin
Blanchard. The ability to sort search results by directory, rather
than filename, was added. A bug which caused foreign characters to
mess up the browse result screen was fixed. Some segmentation faults
and broken pipes were eliminated. The way new releases are announced
during startup was improved. This release includes contributions by
Jonathan Lupa. Mike Castle has helped debugging the networking code.
August 30, 2001: Release 1.4.6. This release contains several new
features that users were requesting. Probably the most important is
the ability to limit the bandwidth for uploads and downloads. Also, a
helper application called "napping" was added which assists nap in
providing ping results. The point is that sending ping packets
requires root privileges. Unlike nap itself, napping can be safely
installed suid root, since it drops suid immediately after the first
system call. Support for direct ("client-to-client") browsing was
added, although its immediate usefulness is questionable, considering
that most other clients do not support it.
Other changes: The name and location of the library file is now
configurable, which some users had requested (particularly where
several users were sharing the same library file). Also, there is now
an optional global config file, /etc/naprc, which may contain
system-wide default configuration options. These can still be
overridden by the user. A "--transparent" option was added for those
users who use eterm or similar with a pretty background image: this
causes nap to use the default background instead of black (requires
ncurses-5.2). The behavior of Ctrl-W on the main screen was improved,
and Ctrl-L now works on the search result screen. A firewall question
was added to the interactive setup. Estimated times of arrival were
added. A filtering option was added to the /pdown command. Also, a
variety of bugs and small glitches were fixed. This release includes
contributions by Nufsi, Matthew Rench, Steffen Pingel, Jesse Pavel,
and Sebastian Zagrodzki.
July 1, 2001: Release 1.4.5. After more than two months, this is an
overdue release. I incorporated many patches and bug reports, as well
as adding some new features. The main new feature is that the OpenNap
servers are now the default for nap. The reason for this is that
Napster Inc. has modified their servers to use a new client
authentification scheme, which means nap users can no longer connect
to their servers. Nap will automatically download a list of available
servers from napigator.com, and then connect to the first available
one.
Other changes: A Windows (cygwin32) distribution has been added. Nap
now fully supports VBR (variable bitrate) files. Various segfaults
were removed. Commands such as /set, /alias, /server etc. were
modified to do something useful when no arguments are given. The
appearance of the search result screen can now be customized, and the
result screen is not reset when switching back and forth to the main
screen. A /getservers command was added to read a list of servers from
napigator.com. The /reconnect command was modified to cycle to the
next server on the list, rather than starting from the top of the list
each time. PONG packages are now ignored by default. The various
binary distributions are now statically linked, to avoid problems with
missing shared libraries. This release includes contributions by
Nufsi, Rüdiger Kuhlman, Mark Glines, Steffen Pingel, Matthew Rench,
and Pawel Fedorynski.
Nap's [1]sourceforge project page has been updated and is now fully
operational. You are encouraged to use sourceforge's facilities for
bug reports, feature requests etc.
July 1, 2001: Release 1.4.5. After more than two months, this is an
overdue release. I incorporated many patches and bug reports, as well
as adding some new features. The main new feature is that the OpenNap
servers are now the default for nap. The reason for this is that
Napster Inc. has modified their servers to use a new client
authentification scheme, which means nap users can no longer connect
to their servers. Nap will automatically download a list of available
servers from napigator.com, and then connect to the first available
one.
Other changes: A Windows (cygwin32) distribution has been added. Nap
now fully supports VBR (variable bitrate) files. Various segfaults
were removed. Commands such as /set, /alias, /server etc. were
modified to do something useful when no arguments are given. The
appearance of the search result screen can now be customized, and the
result screen is not reset when switching back and forth to the main
screen. A /getservers command was added to read a list of servers from
napigator.com. The /reconnect command was modified to cycle to the
next server on the list, rather than starting from the top of the list
each time. PONG packages are now ignored by default. The various
binary distributions are now statically linked, to avoid problems with
missing shared libraries. This release includes contributions by
Nufsi, Rüdiger Kuhlman, Mark Glines, Steffen Pingel, Matthew Rench,
and Pawel Fedorynski.
Nap's [2]sourceforge project page has been updated and is now fully
operational. You are encouraged to use sourceforge's facilities for
bug reports, feature requests etc.
July 1, 2001: Release 1.4.5. After more than two months, this is an
overdue release. I incorporated many patches and bug reports, as well
as adding some new features. The main new feature is that the OpenNap
servers are now the default for nap. The reason for this is that
Napster Inc. has modified their servers to use a new client
authentification scheme, which means nap users can no longer connect
to their servers. Nap will automatically download a list of available
servers from napigator.com, and then connect to the first available
one.
Other changes: A Windows (cygwin32) distribution has been added. Nap
now fully supports VBR (variable bitrate) files. Various segfaults
were removed. Commands such as /set, /alias, /server etc. were
modified to do something useful when no arguments are given. The
appearance of the search result screen can now be customized, and the
result screen is not reset when switching back and forth to the main
screen. A /getservers command was added to read a list of servers from
napigator.com. The /reconnect command was modified to cycle to the
next server on the list, rather than starting from the top of the list
each time. PONG packages are now ignored by default. The various
binary distributions are now statically linked, to avoid problems with
missing shared libraries. This release includes contributions by
Nufsi, Rüdiger Kuhlman, Mark Glines, Steffen Pingel, Matthew Rench,
and Pawel Fedorynski.
Nap's [3]sourceforge project page has been updated and is now fully
operational. You are encouraged to use sourceforge's facilities for
bug reports, feature requests etc.
July 1, 2001: Release 1.4.5. After more than two months, this is an
overdue release. I incorporated many patches and bug reports, as well
as adding some new features. The main new feature is that the OpenNap
servers are now the default for nap. The reason for this is that
Napster Inc. has modified their servers to use a new client
authentification scheme, which means nap users can no longer connect
to their servers. Nap will automatically download a list of available
servers from napigator.com, and then connect to the first available
one.
Other changes: A Windows (cygwin32) distribution has been added. Nap
now fully supports VBR (variable bitrate) files. Various segfaults
were removed. Commands such as /set, /alias, /server etc. were
modified to do something useful when no arguments are given. The
appearance of the search result screen can now be customized, and the
result screen is not reset when switching back and forth to the main
screen. A /getservers command was added to read a list of servers from
napigator.com. The /reconnect command was modified to cycle to the
next server on the list, rather than starting from the top of the list
each time. PONG packages are now ignored by default. The various
binary distributions are now statically linked, to avoid problems with
missing shared libraries. This release includes contributions by
Nufsi, Rüdiger Kuhlman, Mark Glines, Steffen Pingel, Matthew Rench,
and Pawel Fedorynski.
Nap's [4]sourceforge project page has been updated and is now fully
operational. You are encouraged to use sourceforge's facilities for
bug reports, feature requests etc.
April 23, 2001: Release 1.4.4-ps9. This release has tons of new
features, and in addition the inner workings of nap were re-designed
in a major way. There's a possibility for new bugs, although the code
seems very stable. However, consider it a beta release; if you're
squeamish about bugs, consider waiting until the next release before
you update. However, maybe you just can't live without these new
features:
* Queueing. Nap is now fully able to deal with queued downloads,
even remotely queued ones. ("Remotely queued" really means we keep
trying the download until it succeeds). Uploads and downloads that
are stopped (timed out, incomplete etc) are no longer
automatically removed from the download list; stopped downloads
can now be reactivated (although not yet "resumed": the file will
start loading from 0 again). Total and per-user upload and
download limits can be set.
* Sorting. Search results can now be sorted by various criteria.
* And more... Dependency on endianness was reduced; nap should now
work reasonably well, though not yet perfectly, on big-endian
machines such as Sparc. The command history feature on the main
screen was re-designed. The screen switching code was rewritten,
removing more segfaults. Usage messages for nap's internal
commands have been improved. The suffix for incomplete files is
now user configurable. A feature was added to allow passwords and
email addresses for multiple users in a single config file.
Unsuccessful attempts to connect to a server are now subject to a
user-configurable timeout; this is useful if you have a list of
servers to connect to. Config files now reside in a directory
~/.nap, rather than cluttering up your home directory. (Some
existing config files are automatically moved to the new location
when you upgrade). The "~/" syntax is now allowed in many path
names, particularly the upload and download paths, and a sample
script for running nap under screen(1) was added (thanks Massimo
Dal Zotto). File sizes on search result screen can now be
displayed in bytes or megabytes. Searches have a new option to
limit the size of the files searched for (OpenNap only - thanks
Sascha Lüdecke). Search screen has a new "help" feature. Several
commands such as /ddown can now take a set of numeric ranges as
arguments (such as 1-3,5).
April 19, 2001: Release 1.4.4-ps8. I added a feature which users had
been wanting for a long time: now there is an "incomplete" directory,
where your incomplete downloads go, in addition to the "download"
directory, where only completed downloads go. Downloads that are
interrupted while they are still incomplete remain in the "incomplete"
directory (and they are tagged to facilitate a later resume - however,
resumes are not yet implemented in this version). Incomplete files
that are too small (less than 100000 bytes or the value of the
variable "turdsize", if set), are deleted immediately. Other changes
include: checksums are now calculated in a way even closer to what the
official Windows client does; fixed cursor positioning bugs of release
ps7; fixed additional segfaults (notably when pressing Ctrl-T while
not on a channel); disabled support for dynamically linked user object
library (was anybody ever using this?); improved debugging output.
April 16, 2001: Release 1.4.4-ps7 has some new features, and many old
bugs fixed. Fixed the bug which caused nap to prompt for the user's
password even if the password was given in the config file. Added a
"savepass" user variable to allow passwords to be saved to the config
file. All user variables can now be set on the command line with the
--option option. Added --nobuild option to avoid building the library.
Added autoreply feature which will reply to messages sent to you when
in non-interactive mode (see "Messages" in the User Guide). Nap now
replaces double quotes by single quotes when chatting, rather than
letting the server cut them off. Added some now keybindings, such as
Ctrl-K for deleting the rest of the line. Finally, automatically check
online to see if there is a new release and alert the user if yes.
This can be turned off by setting nonews=1.
April 12, 2001: Release 1.4.4-ps6 is a quick bug fix. A last minute
bug prevented config files from being created.
April 12, 2001: Release 1.4.4-ps5 is mainly a bug fix release. I fixed
two nasty bugs which caused nap to apparently freeze. One of these
bugs was introduced in 1.4.4-ps4 and caused nap to starve all other
connections (including user input) during an upload. The other one was
an old bug which caused nap to freeze sometimes when switching back
and forth between the main screen and the result screen using F1 and
F2. Also new in 1.4.4-ps5:
* Fixed security loophole which allowed remote clients to access
arbitrary files on our system.
* Now nap creates the config file automatically if none exists. This
eliminates the need to manually create the file .napconf. Also,
unified the concepts of user variables and options set in the
config file; these are now one and the same thing.
* Now nap automatically detects whether your library needs
rebuilding; it is no longer necessary to do this explicitly with
the "-b" flag.
* Help new users by giving more meaningful error messages,
particularly if one forgets to type "/" at the beginning of a
command.
* Added /savechannels and /loadchannels commands to save and restore
the channels you're on. Also documented the (previously existing)
feature of how to do this automatically.
* Fixed some bugs with hotlists that caused segfaults on 64-bit
machines (Thanks Nikita Schmidt).
April 9, 2001: Release 1.4.4-ps4 is a bug fix release. There was a
fatal bug in 1.4.4-ps3 which prevented all uploads (unless you were
behind a firewall). Please upgrade immediately and destroy all
existing copies of nap-1.4.4-ps3. Also new in 1.4.4-ps4:
* additional control over what is displayed on the result screen
* some command line parameters can now be accessed as internal
variables and manipulated with the commands /set, /unset, /pvars.
* remaining id3v2 bug fixed; all id3v2 files should now be sharable
and downloadable
* MD5 hashes are now calculated in the same way that other napster
clients do it
Some other features that were added since 1.4.4:
* Allow nap to run quietly in the background, serving files and
automatically reconnecting whenever the server disconnects
* Changed names and default location of config files, and
liberalized their format to allow for comments and whitespace.
Also prompt user for missing information, rather than croaking.
* Posix-style long options, and many additional command line options
for overriding settings in config file
* Allow user to specify multiple napster servers, to connect to
first available one.
* Allow a range of ports (e.g. 6699-6799) for incoming connections:
specifying an unavailable port used to force nap into firewall
mode (relevant e.g. when running two copies of nap).
* OpenBSD compatibility (Thanks Geoff The)
* ...and more